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Kickstarter Suspends Crowdfunding Campaign For Electronics 3D Printer (3dprintingindustry.com)
Kickstarter has suspended a crowdfunding campaign that promised its backers "a high-end multi-material 3D liquid jet printer" that could print circuit boards. Slashdot reader PrintBetter writes: With just three days to go, backers were pulling out of Next Dynamics' NexD1 Kickstarter amidst fears the creator exaggerated progress on their prototype and tried to pass off prints purchased from Shapeways as their own... [T]he Berlin company's campaign was a darling of Kickstarter, carrying their "Projects We Love" endorsement and receiving praise from publications like TechCrunch, 3DPrint.com and Make magazine for its purported ability to mix up to six plastic and conductive resins in a single print.
But as pledges grew to over half a million euros, backers started to sense things didn't add up. Kevin Holmes commented "Wow, I'm stunned -- I cancelled my pledge already ... Did they really buy parts from Shapeways and pass them off as their own?" while Anthony Webb remarked "I've backed over 100 projects on Kickstarter ... but this one takes the cake for a complete scam." The company was a no-show at events it scheduled this week, including a demonstration Monday and a live stream Tuesday.
But as pledges grew to over half a million euros, backers started to sense things didn't add up. Kevin Holmes commented "Wow, I'm stunned -- I cancelled my pledge already ... Did they really buy parts from Shapeways and pass them off as their own?" while Anthony Webb remarked "I've backed over 100 projects on Kickstarter ... but this one takes the cake for a complete scam." The company was a no-show at events it scheduled this week, including a demonstration Monday and a live stream Tuesday.
Never underestimate the limits of people's stupidity. Kickstarter is simply a facilitator between rubes and crappy products, and keeps a sizable % of the contributions for itself.
One of these days, Kickstarter, right in the pussy!
So Google is ordering more employees to stay in America and spend their money in America?
Thanks Trump!
I think it's a bit too early to have a chat about how Trump is saving America. Let's wait a year or so, then we can give him the praise he deserves.
How is this any different than 90% of the kickstarters? Did they exaggerate just a bit too much?
Yeah, when a racist scam artist comes to power typically things go really well for the country...
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FUCK. THAT. SHIT!
What did Trump do that was racist? People keep repeating this but where is the evidence?
If you mean that he pointed out that the vast majority of crime in cities is from one race, that isn't racism, it's statistics.
I'm not seeing what the problem is other than missing deadline and poor communication and exaggerated "this is how it'll look and perform" videos.
I'm willing to give benefit of the doubt at this point, because seemingly poor communication is endemic to creative people... As in they can get so busy working on the problem of the day (or even hour) that they suddenly flip to a state of ignoring the constant demands for a status update and just go into lockdown mode.
I hate timelines anyway (although it's Next Dynamics' fault for creating one so linear). A timeline based in reality often looks like a toddler's crayon scribble, with many swirls backward and forward as the seemingly insurmountable roadblocks or 'cannot do it that way' moments stack up.
You don't know what you are talking about. As someone who got my green card the legal way, I wholeheartedly support Trump's policy of strong vetting and curbing illegals. And definitely a lot more scrutiny on the H1B is required. Even in my company the H1Bs from a particular subcontinent were completely and utterly useless compared to the H1Bs from Europe (Except the French), China and Japan and their single reason of existence was manager bonuses, while we the H1Bs from EU/CN/JP had to do all the work at depressed wages (because of IN). I don't quite agree with the free reign to the corporation he stands for, but we will see.
conductor electronics, or even electronic circuit boards, but aren't all the conventional production methods essentially printing albeit with a mask (like a printed t-shirt), ot even mentioning epitaxy here. Usually there's an etching step in there too, but so too with "3d printing" and acetone vapor.
golden shower from grabbed pussies?
the unfortunate result of liquoring them up first
Just curious where you got that number. From Kickstarter? Does Kickstarter say that Kickstarter is often good?
Of course on Slashdot, 83% of statistics come directly from the poster's imagination*, so that's a possibility too.
* Including this one
That's qualuudes brother...
You do realize that the travel ban applies to green card holders? The DHS confirmed that legal green card holders abroad will be turned away if from those countries.
This is not smart policy.
I would never invest into a company that does not even have an Impressum containing a postal address at their web page - and I could not find one at http://next-dynamics.com/
At least the "Handelsregister" knows their postal address - Prenzlauer Allee 242, 10405 Berlin - so I guess those who still consider investing into them might want to take a look at what they invest into, there, first.
"I've backed over 100 projects on Kickstarter ...
"A fool and his money are soon crowd-parted."
Eh, I've backed a few dozen and I would say about 95% I got what I was pledging for. Some failed to deliver but that's going to happen, there is an inherit risk to it. It's just knowing what to avoid, like hardware. I won't fund hardware projects, way too many of them fail. Sometimes it's due to outright fraud, but usually it's that they underestimate the actual costs of producing their products.
Unfortunately most people think Kickstarter is some kind of store for new products and if it's on there, then they will absolutely get it, and get it on time (always assume any KS will miss their deadlines, people are really bad at estimating how long it will take to get to the end of a project and ship). KS needs to start making people sit through a training video with quizzes or something when signing up for an account.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
I thought the 3D printing hype bubble exploded years ago?
Looks like Donald Trump has gone from spreading racist lies about President Obama's birthplace to enforcing bigoted immigration controls so ham-handedly that Google is ordering many employees back into the country lest they get stuck outside our borders.
Donald Trump's racism, incompetence, and bigotry are a stain that will stay with the United States like slavery and Jim Crow.
Maybe we should chat about this in an article... just a thought...
Aww you mean all their H1Bs might get stuck if they leave the country. booo-hoo
Wrong! The people traveling back and forth with a flimsy connection to the US...those are exactly the people you want to ban.
Thanks for that information, and the citation.
Sorry if I was a bit skeptical.
Many people think kickstarter is a store because it looks like one. See something you like? Just fill out yoyr cc number and shipping address!
This is intentional. They could make it more clear that it's not a normal store but that would hurt their revenue so they don't.
Precisely. In some ways it's gotten better in that KS now requires that you have an actual prototype for any inventions, but they're insistence that they're not at all responsible for projects that wind up being scams is going to kill the platform if they can't figure out how to manage it.
Early on, it wasn't as much of an issue because the only people who were on the site new they were effectively investing where the best case scenario would be what the campaigner was promising. Very bad business and a lot of these projects wind up on KS because it's an interest free loan and they can't get a loan elsewhere as they haven't got a viable business model.
He's racist, he's just not any more racist than anybody else of his generation that didn't grow up around racial minorities. Most of it is overblown and the things that people cite are usually not evidence that he's racist. They're more often evidence that he isn't interested in encouraging immigration.
Yes, heaven forbid the U.S. control its borders and ban immigrants from countries with a history of exporting terrorism. Maybe we should just throw open our borders like Germany, Sweden, France, etc. I mean, that's worked out so well for them, right? Nope, no terrorist attacks, rapes, no-go Sharia zones, or riots have resulted from THEIR enlightened immigration policy. Nope, just grateful happy refugees saying "Thanks, Europe." Guess they've already proven Trump wrong, huh?
Who cares if they're terrorists or not - they're not *real* Americans so we don't want 'em! Specially if they're brown, right?
You dumbass...a person with a green card is a lawful permanent resident, as in the closest to a citizen without being a citizen you can get. The connection is anything but tenuous. LPRs should NEVER be denied entry...they are permanent fucking residents...the fucking live here.
...Suckers!
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
Hearing a lot about problems with Kickstarter projects lately.
Robert X Cringely is involved with a kickstarter project that he seems to be hiding from after collecting $35k, promising in comments on his blog a long-awaited status update "in a few days" and still getting complaints about not following through 3 weeks later with updates on a project that was supposed to ship over a year ago and hasn't posted a status update in over 11 weeks.
Kickstarter is looking more and more like a great place to get scammed. Caveat emptor, and don't assume you can trust a name you've been familiar with for decades.